Month: September 2008

Crystal over at Aff the Fang does a Manic Monday challenge every week. (It actually reminds me of John Scalzi’s “Weekend Assignments” back when he blogged for AOL) Anyway, this week the assignment was to do a MacGyver video. Here’s mine:

Because I know you read my website, so you’ll get my message. And it’s public, which is fun. So happy birthday Mom! 🙂

I used to love the simple, useful, real-time information SiteMeter offered for web traffic. This weekend, they changed over to their new system, which resembles a much less friendly, and much less useful version of Google Analytics.

I’m really bummed about this, because it was their simplicity that made Sitemeter awesome. Now? Just another complicated, obfuscated, hard to use system. Anyone have any web traffic monitoring software they like? Something *exactly* like the old Sitemeter would be best.

*sigh*

Kiki likes my hair gel. Sometimes I wake up at night with a WET head. This time she didn’t wait for me to fall asleep. Weird, eh?

Over at Linux Journal, I reviewed a nifty set of speakers. Please go over there to comment and make me look much more popular than I really am — the captcha isn’t as bad as it used to be, I promise (Now it has maths!!!). 😀

(Plus, the commenters over there can be grumpy — you guys are awesome. I’d like to tip the scales over there a bit…)

I was just driving, and wanted to talk. This is what you get. 🙂

So Crystal over at Aff The Fang assigned us the task of writing a poem about cheese. There were several interesting submissions. Go read for yourself. 🙂 (Mine is pasted below…)

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Cheddar
by Shawn Powers

The yellow cheese from Cheddar was a sight that had to be seen,
See, the cows ate grass in Cheddar, high in beta carotene.
Perhaps the soil, perhaps the weather, no one really quite knew why,
Other towns couldn’t get that special taste, but boy they sure did try!

People saw the yellow cheese, and knew that Cheddar made the best,
And that palest orange tint made it stand out from the rest.
Other towns made lots of cheeses, some were good and some were bad,
But people paid more for Cheddar, for it was the best they’d ever had.

The other cheesers hated Cheddar, and all the people from the town,
They thought of every sneaky way to keep Cheddar’s profits down.
A lowly annatto tree farmer found the trick in a tiny seed,
It turned their cheeses yellow, which was just the thing in need.

People thought the yellow color is what made the Cheddar good,
So they paid more for the plain cheese, even though they never should.
For annatto seed adds color, but not a bit of taste,
All the extra cash for yellow, was a monumental waste.

So when you buy your cheeses, both the yellow and the white,
Know that a little town in England was the first to do it right.
If you judge your cheese by color, you might pay more than you should,
Be sure to taste the Cheddar, to make sure it’s really good!